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Aristotle Metaphysics Theta
Author | : Aristotle |
Publsiher | : Oxford University Press |
Total Pages | : 332 |
Release | : 2006-08-31 |
Genre | : Philosophy |
ISBN | : 9780198751076 |
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"This addition to the Clarendon Aristotle series comprises a new translation of Aristotle's Metaphysics Book [Theta], an introduction to the basic notions and problems around which the book is structured, and a detailed chapter-by-chapter critical commentary. Makin's aim throughout is to present Aristotle's text in as accessible a manner as possible, and to encourage and enable readers to engage critically with Aristotle's arguments. Metaphysics Book [Theta] is an extended discussion of the distinction between the actual and the potential, a distinction which is important both for Aristotle's own thought and for later philosophers. Aristotle starts by considering the relation between capacities and changes, and then expands his discussion to cover the notions of matter and substance, which are at the heart of his ontology. Among the topics covered in detail in the commentary are the distinctions between two-way and one-way capacities, and between rational and non-rational capacities; arguments against reductive views of possibility and impossibility; Aristotle's treatment of capacity identity and his account of the exercise of capacities; Aristotle's answer to the question 'what is it to be potentially such and such?'; his defence of the idea that actuality is prior in various ways to potentiality; and his brief comments on the evaluation of potentialities and actualities, the role of the actual-potential distinction in geometrical knowledge, and his treatment of truth and falsity."--BOOK JACKET.
Doing and Being
Author | : Jonathan Beere,Jonathan B. Beere |
Publsiher | : Oxford University Press |
Total Pages | : 382 |
Release | : 2009-10-29 |
Genre | : Language Arts & Disciplines |
ISBN | : 9780199206704 |
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Doing and Being confronts the problem of how to understand two central concepts of Aristotle's philosophy: energeia and dunamis. While these terms seem ambiguous between actuality/potentiality and activity/capacity, Aristotle did not intend them to be so. Through a careful and detailed reading of Metaphysics Theta, Beere argues that we can solve the problem by rejecting both "actuality" and "activity" as translations of energeia, and by working out an analogical conception of energeia. This approach enables Beere to discern a hitherto unnoticed connection between Plato's Sophist and Aristotle's Metaphysics Theta, and to give satisfying interpretations of the major claims that Aristotle makes in Metaphysics Theta, the claim that energeia is prior in being to capacity (Theta 8) and the claim that any eternal principle must be perfectly good (Theta 9).
Aristotle s Metaphysics 1 3
Author | : Martin Heidegger |
Publsiher | : Indiana University Press |
Total Pages | : 236 |
Release | : 1995-10-22 |
Genre | : History |
ISBN | : 0253329108 |
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Martin Heidegger's reading of Aristotle was one of the pivotal influences in the development of his philosophy. First published in German in 1981 as volume 33 of Heidegger's Collected Works, this book translates a lecture course he presented at the University of Freiburg in 1931. Heidegger's careful translation and his probing commentary on the first three chapters of Book IX of Metaphysics show the close correlation between his phenomenological interpretation of the Greeks (especially of Aristotle) and his critique of metaphysics. Additionally, Heidegger's confrontation with Aristotle's Greek text makes a significant contribution to contemporary scholarship on Aristotle, particularly the understanding of potentiality in Aristotle's thought. Finally, the book exemplifies Heidegger's gift for teaching students how to read a philosophical text and how to question that text in a philosophical way.
Aristotle Metaphysics Theta
Author | : Stephen Makin |
Publsiher | : Clarendon Press |
Total Pages | : 333 |
Release | : 2006-08-31 |
Genre | : Philosophy |
ISBN | : 9780191547652 |
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Aristotle: Metaphysics Theta Translated with an introduction and commentary
Doing and Being
Author | : Jonathan Beere |
Publsiher | : OUP Oxford |
Total Pages | : 384 |
Release | : 2009-10-29 |
Genre | : Philosophy |
ISBN | : 9780191607189 |
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Doing and Being confronts the problem of how to understand two central concepts of Aristotle's philosophy: energeia and dunamis. While these terms seem ambiguous between actuality/potentiality and activity/capacity, Aristotle did not intend them to be so. Through a careful and detailed reading of Metaphysics Theta, Beere argues that we can solve the problem by rejecting both "actuality" and "activity" as translations of energeia, and by working out an analogical conception of energeia. This approach enables Beere to discern a hitherto unnoticed connection between Plato's Sophist and Aristotle's Metaphysics Theta, and to give satisfying interpretations of the major claims that Aristotle makes in Metaphysics Theta, the claim that energeia is prior in being to capacity (Theta 8) and the claim that any eternal principle must be perfectly good (Theta 9).
Priority in Aristotle s Metaphysics
Author | : Michail Peramatzis,Michail M. Peramatzis |
Publsiher | : Oxford University Press |
Total Pages | : 342 |
Release | : 2011-08-11 |
Genre | : Literary Collections |
ISBN | : 9780199588350 |
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The idea that some parts of reality are fundamental and others derivative was an important one in Aristotle's philosophical system, and is now again of great current interest in philosophy. Michail Peramatzis presents a new account of priority relations in Aristotle's metaphysics, and draws out their continuing philosophical significance.
Metaphysics
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Author | : Aristotle |
Publsiher | : Unknown |
Total Pages | : 135 |
Release | : 2020 |
Genre | : Metaphysics |
ISBN | : 019189138X |
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Aristotle on Substance
Author | : Mary Louise Gill |
Publsiher | : Princeton University Press |
Total Pages | : 308 |
Release | : 1989 |
Genre | : Philosophy |
ISBN | : 0691020701 |
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This book explores a fundamental tension in Aristotle's metaphysics: how can an entity such as a living organisma composite generated through the imposition of form on preexisting matterhave the conceptual unity that Aristotle demands of primary substances? Mary Louise Gill bases her treatment of the problem of unity, and of Aristotle's solution, on a fresh interpretation of the relation between matter and form. Challenging the traditional understanding of Aristotelian matter, she argues that material substances are subverted by matter and maintained by form that controls the matter to serve a positive end. The unity of material substances thus involves a dynamic relation between resistant materials and directive ends. Aristotle on Substance offers both a general account of matter, form, and substantial unity and a specific assessment of particular Aristotelian arguments. At every point, Gill engages Aristotle on his own philosophical ground through the detailed analysis of central, and often controversial, texts from the Metaphysics, Physics, On Generation and Corruption, De Anima, De Caelo, and the biological works. The result is a coherent, firmly grounded rethinking of Aristotle's central metaphysical concepts and of his struggle toward a fully consistent theory of material substances.